GA House Speaker David Ralston And The Silence of the Dogs

What's up down South? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported last week (Feb 13) on what looks (to my tired Yankee eyes) like an appalling abuse of power by the Republican Speaker of the House David Ralston:

Alleged victims say powerful Georgia lawmaker repeatedly delays cases

...

Yet more than four years after his indictment [on domestic violence, aggravated assault] Shell remains a free man, the charges against him stymied. A big reason: He paid a large retainer fee to hire an attorney who is also one of Georgia’s most powerful lawmakers, state Speaker of the House David Ralston.

Just as Ralston has done for other clients charged with violent or heinous crimes, he used his elected position to delay hearings and court dates, preventing the case from moving forward in the Gilmer County justice system.

“That’s why I gave him 20,000 bucks,” Shell told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “He’s worth every penny of it.”

A joint investigation by the AJC and Channel 2 Action News found that Ralston appears to be misusing the power of his public office to benefit his private law practice. By doing no more than writing letters to judges declaring that court dates interfere with his lawmaking duties, he has been able to keep cases perpetually off the docket. But his tactics can thwart justice, harm crime victims and put the public at risk.

Ralston has tied up cases for clients charged with child molestation, child cruelty, assault, terroristic threats, drunk driving and other crimes.

...

Under a state law dating back to 1905, judges and prosecutors must defer to the legislative schedule of any practicing attorney who serves in the General Assembly. Other attorney-lawmakers, though, are mainly relegated to claiming the exemption during the annual 40-day legislative sessions.

As House speaker, Ralston, who practices law in the rural, mountainous counties of North Georgia, can claim conflicts year-round. In 21 cases examined in four counties over a two-year period, he filed 57 requests for continuances.

This story seems to have it what it takes to generate a media storm, namely sympathetic (alleged) victims and a Republican evil-doer. But maybe the media can't rally without footage of Ralston in a MAGA hat (or blackface!). A Google News search on "David Ralston" returns articles by the AJC, Channel 2 Action News, and Fox News. I'll credit Erick Erickson with the Fox coverage, since he has been pounding the table on Twitter for more coverage.

So why the media silence? The AJC bloggers wondered about a related question today - why the muted response from Democrats?

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Earlier this morning, we told you that House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, is facing criticism after an AJC investigation that found he frequently delayed criminal court cases by claiming the dates interfered with his legislative duties. 

But as we have often said in this space, the dogs that don’t bark are sometimes just as important as the ones that do. What goes unsaid can be just as important as what’s said. This is the statement that arrived late Friday from the state Democratic party, via spokeswoman Maggie Chambers:

“These revelations show that Speaker Ralston has abused his power as a public servant to delay and deny justice for crime victims. As a legislator who has been given the trust of his constituents, he needs to remember his duty and put the needs of Georgia families before his own self-interest.”

“Needs to remember his duty” is a far cry from calling for Ralston’s resignation, a demand which -- so far as we know -- hasn’t passed the lips of any elected official in the state Capitol.

The Democratic party statement is a reminder that Ralston has been an occasional partner with Democrats in the Legislature on some particularly crucial issues. And we’ve a long way to go before this session of the General Assembly is finished.

The silence has struck some as concerning. WSB Radio’s Erick Erickson is currently pushing his followers to contact members of the House Ethics Committee, Democrats included.

Huh. 

I would not presume to lecture either Erick Erickson or the AJC on the subtleties of Georgia politics, but... oh, let me do just that. This article describes the 40 day agenda in the GA capital and notes that Speaker Ralston diverges from the newly elected Republican governor on two attention-getting issues: a Religious Freedom bill opposed by Democrats (and nixed by the last Republican governor) and the state takeover of the Atlanta airport.

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And they’ve become a very highly charged issue. Republican Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a RFRA in 2016, saying he was not disparaging the motives of the bill’s supporters, but he found there was a chance it could lead to state-sanctioned discrimination.

State House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, he’s not sure there’s state House support for a RFRA.

He said his concern is that it’s an issue that has the potential to divide the state. 

“I would would just ask us to pause before we get into an issue that has the potential to tear the fabric of the state,” Ralston said at a pre-session press conference last week.

But new Gov. Brian Kemp and new Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan are interested. Both have said they want to pass a RFRA that mirrors the language of the federal law.

And...

Ralston said he’s not ready to embrace the idea of a state takeover of the airport.

If corruption is the concern, Ralston said, “We have law enforcement, we have prosecutors, and I say let’s turn them loose to do what they need to do. I don’t know that you change the entire system because of some bad actors.”

If - IF - that is all that is holding Democrats back, they need to man up, woman up, or hero-up. As to Republican silence, or the media silence generally, I can't explain it. Where is the fact-free rush to judgment when we need it?

BONUS BAFFLER: The media Cone of Silence has fallen over Virginia. Maybe after the political meltdown there, no media members want to go near any southern state political leader. Maybe!

PILING ON: In January the Speaker was trying to rein in the gun rights enthusiasts in his own party, which may be yet another reason Democrats don't mind having him around.

Comments

[Captain Hate]

Another victory for the Uniparty Senate.

[Porchlight]

Gosh, maybe I too was in a COMA, but, has there been a probem with LYNCHINGS that I am unaware of???

No. The bill defines it down, so that speech can be restricted. This is all to suppress Trump support in 2020.

Trump needs to veto and if the veto is overridden, then the bill must be challenged. Again, this is if I'm understanding it correctly.

[clarice]

Super,OL..then they'll hang us both/

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

You are right! I was so concentrated on the medical aspects, I didn't notice that there was no mention of the father.

[Captain Hate]

Trump needs to veto and if the veto is overridden, then the bill must be challenged.

Surely John "FISA Court" Roberts will refuse to consider the Constitutionality of anything anti Drumpf.

[daddy]

The Jussie Smollett Incident Was Never Very Important

I have to disagree with the Federalist author and the title of his piece. Instead of being unimportant it was instead very important because it was Alinskey on steroids, another beautifully contrived construct to whip the opponents of the Left into Cultural submission to the pronouncements of the Left. This was Big Brother 101, right think, 'Black Legs good, White legs bad.' It was the smear of Racism at it's finest and something Goebbles would have been proud to engineer to damn an entire class of citizens into non-citizen status. To say it was not important is equivalent to saying that the bullet that was just fired at the head of every decent conservative citizen in America was unimportant because the bullet happened to miss. If it hadn't been important, then every Journalist in America wouldn't have been shooting their damn mouths off on the MSM for hours and hours and hours telling us how important it was.

The Jussie Smollett Incident Was Never Very Important and continues to be so in it's unraveling which is why the Left is now so intent on non-coverage of it and pretending it wasn't important in the first place.

[MissMarple2]

Did anyone know that there were these relationships between the Browns, Pelosis, Newsoms and J/ Paul Getty?

All I knew was that Gavin Newsom was Pelosi's nephew.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzteIqKUcAQCa87.jpg:large

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

Trump needs to veto and if the veto is overridden, then the bill must be challenged.

veto a lynching bill? The optics the msm would generate for those that only read the hedlines would be lovely! /sarc

[pagar]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204424863156362&set=a.10204424863996383&type=3&theater

Roseanne Has so many good posts up right now. Take a look.

[Old Lurker]

Calling it the "Anti-Lynching Law" is as "opposite world" as Ayn Rand named all the laws being passed in Atlas Shrugged.

[clarice]

I can't see such a bill passing constitutional muster.

[Porchlight]

veto a lynching bill? The optics the msm would generate for those that only read the hedlines would be lovely! /sarc

They would go nuts, of course, which was always the plan.

[Extraneus]

Yeah, there won't be any veto of a lynching bill.

[Extraneus]

Has any hate crime legislation made it to SCOTUS?

[Porchlight]

I get the optics but if the bill defines "speech we don't like" as "lynching" and therefore a felony, then something has to happen.

[Old Lurker]

Clarice "I can't see such a bill passing constitutional muster."

Agree. But I am sick that some poor MAGA guy is going to get charged, have his life ruined, and suffer years of bank breaking steps before SCOTUS gets around to saying that.

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

I agree with you and not the Federalist author. Not everything I link is necessarily an endorsement.

What is telling to me is how often this type of hoax has occurred over the last 3 years. Even though they turned out to be hoaxes, the fake assaults and vandalism with swastikas and fake pro-Trump stuff still makes headlines, creating an impression that there is a lot of racism amongst Trump supporters for those who are not careful readers of the news.

I would not be surprised to find out this was organized by someone in charge of anti-Trump strategy.

[Porchlight]

Agree. But I am sick that some poor MAGA guy is going to get charged, have his life ruined, and suffer years of bank breaking steps before SCOTUS gets around to saying that.

Agree on all of that but would add to it: in the meantime, how the f can Trump be re-elected if conservative speech is going to be a felony?

[Extraneus]

Doesn't the bill require 2 or more persons to cause bodily harm?

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3178/text/es

[Extraneus]

Or conspire to do so?

[daddy]

Nice speech and rousing applause as Melania speaks out for Freedom for Venezuelans and then introduces her hubby.

[GUS]

Ahhhhhhh!!! It's not an anti-lynching law, it's a FAKE ANTI-LYNCHING LAW.

Well I say, we should allow lynching, then afterward, the DOCTOR and LYNCHER can discuss what to do with the dead baby.

[Marlene]

Melania's dress is beautiful!

Jane,do you want to go to a Red Sox spring training game in Ft. Myers in March? I'll be in touch.

[D]

This is the same tactic the Dems used to silence the Tea Party groups , using the IRS to target them and assure Obama of re-election.
This should not stand.
There are no lynchings going on just like there is no racism being directed at persons of color.
No victims are present except the ones created by the Dems.
JamesD
It will take 2 more election cycles to get rid of all the bad representation we have in Congress.
Everyone needs to be responsible for their own state.
It took years to get Ohio right.
Even now we can’t get rid of wife beater Brown.

[Narciso79]

Um a lynching is murder by asphyxiation, it's not exclusively race based, apparently popular In Haiti,

[Extraneus]

77% of Bill Kristol's Current Readers Would Prefer to Swap Barack Obama Back into the Oval Office

In case you were wondering who Bill Kristol's remaining audience is this poll sums it up nicely. Good luck converting them into being readers of The Bulwark Bill. pic.twitter.com/DBqoEa85xu

— Kyle Beckley (@Kyle_Beckley) February 18, 2019

(Click to open.)

[Porchlight]

Ext, speech is violence, or so I am reliably informed.

But seriously, as you pointed out, conspiracy is also included, with the same penalties as actual offense.

“(c) Conspiracy.—If 2 or more persons conspire to commit any offense under this section, and 1 or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy."

Also, the language about using the internet and the language about interfering with commercial activity (think boycotts) are worrisome.

Under the new law, had the Smollett attack actually been genuine, even if it had only resulted in a black eye, it would legally be a lynching.

In fact, any time a person in a victim category is harmed by two or more people it could be a lynching and a hate crime.

Now imagine some leftist infiltrators at a Trump rally getting some folks to start throwing punches.

IANAL but I can see this going nowhere good.

[Dave (in MA)]

https://twitter.com/DaveinMA/status/1097616978490081281

[sbwaters]

Thanks, all. I’ll pass the good wishes on to Mrs. sbw.

In the meantime, we will both follow our son to Las Vegas for a meeting of family newspaper owners if anyone happens to be there this Thursday through Sunday for both of us and me a little thereafter.

[Dave (in MA)]

Extraneus | February 18, 2019 at 05:00 PM

"Random."

[Old Lurker]

Good point, Porch.

There really should be some mechanism for skipping all the BS so that SCOTUS can rule on something like Anti-Lynching, or ACA, or McC-Feingold within, say, 90 days before something stupid is given enough time to damage the country before it does or does not pass muster by the Black Robed Tyrants.

Porch is exactly right. All they need to do is get it enacted for long enough to steal the rest of the power they don't have yet, after which it matters not what those people say.

[daddy]

Here's the Instapundit page of commenters discussing PJ Media now linking Patterico. Worth a short scroll through to see how many of them hate Patterico's guts and are head-scratching as to why PJMedia is including this shithead in their stable of writers.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The California leftist oligarchy is well known. The Gettys are the worst. Something to be said for estate taxes. 2nd & 3rd and 4th generation oligarchs are usually hard left. You can throw in Feinstein and Richard Blum, her husband, as well.

I don't think Willy Brown is part of the club. It's San Francisco rich white people and when you do get a Chinese like Leland Yee, one of the most anti-gun legislators in the country, caught trafficking automatic weapons to the Philippines, you get a whiff of the stench of real corruption at the heart of the cabal. These people are amoral.

And with the tribal politics in LA, it is enough to make you sick.

[Jane]

Marlene, I'd love to.

[daddy]

daddy,

I agree with you and not the Federalist author. Not everything I link is necessarily an endorsement.

No sweat Miss M. I know that's what you do and please keep doing it. No complaints whatever, just thanks. Cheers.

Boy, Melania is gorgeous.

Trump: Maduro is not a Venezuelan patriot. He is a Cuban puppet. That's what he is.

[Extraneus]

Fortunately for us, Democrats are far more likely to commit assaults based on "actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin" or "actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability."

Too bad they didn't include political orientation.

[Jane]

(I posted this before)

Marlene, I would love to.

[Marlene]

Jane,okay. I'm going to look for a mid-March mid-week one o'clock game. Next year the Atlanta Braves spring training facility will be open near us,so it will be easy to go to games.

[James D.]

Fortunately for us, Democrats are far more likely to commit assaults based on "actual or perceived race, color, religion, or national origin" or "actual or perceived religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability."

Unfortunately for us, Democrats are far more likely to be the ones deciding what qualifies as an assault based on race, and whom to prosecute for same.

[Extraneus]

I've never seen the Insty comments before, but you can see that they use Disqus, which is an option for Typepad blogs.

Comments can be responded to in threads. Embedded tweets include images, and videos can be embedded in comments. Much more powerful than native Typepad.

[MissMarple2]

President Trump is giving a stirring speech against socialism and communism, as well as promoting freedom in Venezuela.

I will post the link to the video when this is over.

[jimmyk]

There really should be some mechanism for skipping all the BS so that SCOTUS can rule on something like Anti-Lynching, or ACA, or McC-Feingold within, say, 90 days

The D playbook is to take it to a judge in Hawaii and get a stay of some sort. Does that work for legislation or only executive orders?

[henry]

Ext, somewhere in that Congressional bafflegab is the usual “target cus white makes for free” disclaimer.

[henry]

Personally, I find the threaded comments a total cf to read. I much prefer the sequential comments here.

[jimmyk]

Best wishes for Mrs SBW, whom the missus and I had the privilege of meeting (along with Mr SBW) a couple of years ago.

And congrats to Jane. That's a tremendous accomplishment. I'm about 20-25 lbs off my peak weight, but I'd need to lose another 15-20 to get back to high school graduation weight.

[daddy]

I suppose Trump could veto the bill by saying that it doesn't go far enough, and that he wants it to include Lib Icon Winnie Mandela's (Nelson Mandela's wife's) favorite practice of torturing and destroying enemies by placing tires around their necks and setting them on fire, especially since the practice of Necklacing is pretty much worldwide.

Then Trump could berate every Congressman who voted for this bill for failing to have compassion for the victims of that atrocious behavior which is surely as horrible as lynching.

[MissMarple2]

I believe this will convert to a video in a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDs04l2lQlk

[Extraneus]

Yeah, there are pros and cons, but here we have to quote the comment we're replying to. I used to hate threading in email programs for work (like Outlook), but it pretty quickly became unthinkable not to have it in order to keep track of many different problems/issues/topics that had little or nothing to do with each other. Such as this one, for example, or the anti-lynching thing, or Mrs. SBW's upcoming procedure, or spring training games.

[Jane]

SBW,

Give my love to Mrs SBW. I hope it will be great.

[peter]

Well, googling around for a story about Malia Obama, I found a website called radar online, which has some very interesting stories I might not ordinarily come across. You can read about Nicki Minaj's amazing behind here: https://radaronline.com/photos/52-sexy-ways-nicki-minaj-brings-nakedness-to-instagram/

Warning NSFW or for mental health.

[daddy]

.
For non-right clickers.

[MissMarple2]

The TRUMP PAGE
‏ @MichaelDelauzon
7m7 minutes ago

Now the president and first lady are on their way to the airport where they will take AIR FORCE ONE to Washington DC.

[Old Lurker]

Daddy "Boy, Melania is gorgeous."

Sure she is. But before you vote, check out Mrs. Tom Brady with her surfboard last week (not that I clicked on and watched the slide show):

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/gisele-bundchen-flaunts-biki-bod-love-of-nature-during-vacation-in-costa-rica

[Extraneus]

I'd bet that Disqus also honors the img tag's w and h parameters.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
2m2 minutes ago

The people of Venezuela are standing for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY – and the United States of America is standing right by their side!

[jimmyk]

And Lara Logan seems prepared to follow Sharyl Attkisson to self-employment.

Logan added, “Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we’ve abandoned our pretense — or at least the effort — to be objective, today. … We’ve become political activists, and some could argue propagandists...."

Towards the end of the interview, Logan quipped, “This interview is professional suicide for me.”

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/02/18/cbss-lara-logan-on-media-bias-unless-you-seek-out-breitbart-you-wont-see-the-other-side/

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump
46s46 seconds ago

I ask every member of the Maduro regime: End this nightmare of poverty, hunger and death. LET YOUR PEOPLE GO. Set your country free! Now is the time for all Venezuelan Patriots to act together, as one united people. Nothing could be better for the future of Venezuela!

[MissMarple2]

How very interesting. Twice I have tried to embed and post the link President Trump's Twitter feed provided, and Typepad disappears it.

I will try a different way.

Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump

We are here to proclaim that a new day is coming in Latin America. In Venezuela and across the Western Hemisphere, Socialism is DYING - and liberty, prosperity, and democracy are being REBORN...https://www.pscp.tv/w/bzsn2DFvTlFsTFJub1dwUXd8MXZBR1J5V0xaUWFLbEwm9ljU950AH_yiukKNDQcynkCoTpAVYL5orUtUZoWt?t=2s …

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Link goes to a Periscope video od the speech.

[Captain Hate]

Time to tell PJM to take me off their mailing list.

[D]

Jimmyk:
Logan coming over to the correct form of journalism is a big win for us.
Pretty soon more writers will wise up and do the right thing wrt their coverage of this administration
Hansen is correct.
The coup is an epic fail.
Long live President Trump!

[Captain Hate]

Welp I just unsubscribed and told them why without using the term "retarded monkey". "Mentally ill" was a more suitable alternative in this case.

[hoyden]

daddy, nice one by sabo.

[daddy]

From JimmyK's Lara Logan interview:

In February of 2011, Logan was sexually assaulted — and nearly murdered — by numerous men in Cairo, Egypt, while reporting on the ousting of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. She shared some details of the attack’s nature.

“Piece by piece, they tore all my clothing off, and just tore my body almost to pieces, and tore my insides apart,” recounted Logan...

I remember that. Does anyone recall if when TIME mag voted Journalists as "The Person of the Year for 2018 if they gave a single damn mention to Lara Logan as opposed to propagandists Acosta and Khashoggi?

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

Nope. Not a word.

Her description of the attack was really horrifying to me.

[Manuel Transmission]

Catching up. In 1967, I was making a whopping $2.00/hr at a high tech job (as a draftsman). So $320/mo. Our rental house was $90/mo and while I was the only breadwinner (Jr was not even a toddler, yet) we only had a $10/mo gas bill. By the end of the year Mrs MT was working so the fuel cost doubled plus day care (with NO subsidizing!).

Coding: I saw coding as nothing more then STEM crack when my classmates were slumped against the wall waiting for their blown runs to be handed back. Did I mention that I'm a Mechanical Engineer? If I can't see it, I don't care about it. :)

Last year I was getting the hang of my Raspberry pi to do some menial stuff that my supercoder wanted me to do. When I told him I might be all the way up to the kindergarten level, he immediately said: "No you're not!"

[daddy]

Ugh. It's snowing again.

Yay, It's snowing again!

;)

[MissMarple2]

Someone on Twitter has the right idea. The fate of the Lincoln conspirators. Notice the one on the left is a woman.

[henry]

Snowed this morning, now going below 0 again,

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

When I was a kid I loved snow, because I didn't have to drive in it, and if we got a lot we got to stay home from school.

As I have gotten older, I find that I crave sunlight, warm temperatures, and leaves on the trees plus flowers.

I really, REALLY want spring!

[MissMarple2]

I had to take the trash can out to the street for pick-up, and yes, iti's spitting snow again!

Grrr. I am COLD!

[MissMarple2]

BNL NEWS
‏ @BreakingNLive

BREAKING: Chicago police are now looking closely into the possibility that Jussie Smollett sent racist and pro-Trump letter to himself days before staged attack.

[daddy]

Coding: I saw coding as nothing more then STEM crack when my classmates were slumped against the wall waiting for their blown runs to be handed back. Did I mention that I'm a Mechanical Engineer? If I can't see it, I don't care about it. :)

MT,

Last year I picked up this book at Moe's in Berkeley by some UC Berkeley prof: Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty by Vikram Chandra

Read about a 3rd of it but lost interest because tho' some of it was interesting, most of it wasn't. Gave up just before he was going to wander off in discussions of some 10th Century Hindu literary aesthete's, which normally I'd be dying to read about it. I may give it another go, but life is short. Am surprised it has so many top ratings.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Seen in email

Journalists Fall for ‘Completely Fake’ Stats About Sexism in Tech
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2019/02/18/journalists-fall-for-completely-fake-stats-about-sexism-in-tech/

[Old Lurker]

MT....funny what you say about MEs. I havealways said that we Real Estate guys are the MEs of the Finance universe. If I can't drive around it I don't want own it...

As to our Raspberry Pi s, 200 pages into the book, your guy is cooect. I am noway up to kindergarden level.

my summer project is to make a R-Pi read some inputs, send me an email, and trip a relay or two. Childs play. But like I said... 200 pages into the book, I just want to hire an 8 year old to do it for me.

[MissMarple2]

Kamela's dad is very upset:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-18/kamala-harris-father-slams-her-pursuit-identity-politics-after-pot-smoking

[henry]

Coding paid real money when I failed the Army intake physical. I liked it because of the code I was paid to write. Stock investment analysis, corporate merger and acquisition pro forms modeling, econometric forecasting (all before and after the PC and spreadsheets). Then manufacturing ERP, CASE tool development, early AI. Not bad having prime time access to a bunch of mainframes, stored data, and compilers.

[daddy]

Breaking: Chicago police are now looking closely

into the possibility that Jussie Smollett sent racist and pro-Trump letter to himself days before staged attack.

[pagar]

IMO, this is one of the saddest stories on the Internet today.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/colin_kaepernick_successfully_shakes_down_the_nfl.html

The league paid this guy to destroy them, How dumb!

[henry]

OL, I got a Pi to automate my Lionel trains. About when I got some code going, I saw a $5 iPad app tied to a Bluetooth box that ties into the transformer. No further point in blowing off rust to learn another language. I may conjure up something crazy later.

[lurkersusie]

Main Stream media isn’t reporting this.

Protesters take over Border Patrol museum, deface pictures of fallen agents

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protesters-take-over-border-patrol-museum-deface-pictures-of-fallen-officers

"Say it loud, say it clear, Border Patrol kills!" group members standing inside and outside the facility yelled.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/protesters-take-over-border-patrol-museum-deface-pictures-of-fallen-officers

Seems like an invasion to me.

[daddy]

My transcript of FOX Reporter 10 seconds ago to non-hysterical Liz on potential legal consequences for Smollett for his self-lynching:

Reporter Michael Tobin in Chicago: ...Now in Illinois falsifying a Police Report is a Felony with a maximum penalty of 3 years in prison and a $25,000 fine; however your Legal experts look at Smollett, he's not violent, he doesn't have a criminal background. They say if he were to be charged, if he were to be convicted, you'd likely be talking about Probation and a whopper of a Fine.

[pagar]

IMO, you can tell this is not who he is: He has no young woman to paw.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/former_vice_president_joe_biden_d_is_an_embarrassment_to_the_usa.html

Never saw a truer headline: What an embarrassment to every decent American.

[pagar]

Just another bad example of a Democrat who believes she is qualified to be our President.

"That she fails to understand this, or maybe was unaware of the situation of the Aurora shooter already being prohibited from having a gun but not being held to the existing law, does not speak well of her intelligence or preparation for comment on it."

May the good voters of American protect us.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/amy_klobuchar_shoots_herself_in_the_foot_with_comments_on_the_aurora_shooting.html

[Extraneus]

Wow.

“My dear departed grandmothers (whose extraordinary legacy I described in a recent essay on this website), as well as my deceased parents, must be turning in their grave right now to see their family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity being connected, in any way, jokingly or not with the fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker and in the pursuit of identity politics. Speaking for myself and my immediate Jamaican family, we wish to categorically dissociate ourselves from this travesty.” -Jamaica Global Online

[MissMarple2]

This is a fascinating article, and of particular interest if you live in California or the West Coast:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/atmospheric-rivers-california-megaflood-lessons-from-forgotten-catastrophe/

[D]

Daddy:
I like snow as well!
It is not officially spring for another month.
Let’s enjoy winter while it is here.
JIB:
Cannot believe 90 degrees in Florida.
Will never move there though. If anywhere out west or up to New England.
125 dollars a month for my first apartment.
1.50 an hour on first cashiering job.
Car payment- 47 dollars a month.

[MissMarple2]

Extraneus,

You know, when your own father calls you a liar, that should sink your candidacy, don't you think?

[Pinandpuller]

NYPD Brown or 'Neighborhood Watch' vs UPS:

https://twitter.com/veve1098/status/1095411431439302658

[pagar]

All you need to know:

"Said veteran civil libertarian Nat Hentoff, "Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/for_the_record_obama_made_mincemeat_of_the_constitution.html

[Captain Hate]

You know, when your own father calls you a liar, that should sink your candidacy, don't you think?

I don't think I've ever seen a candidate get dressed down in such blunt terms by a father (Slick and the Rat were exempt) in a public statement before. Good for him to not excuse trash behavior bringing shame to his family. Moar pleeze.

[Another Bob]

Ext, re. Captain Cuck’s poll, the republicans started coming home from work and narrowed the gap considerably.

[anonamom]

I'm guessing Prof. Harris is less than thrilled having confirmed by Willie Brown and now the whole world knowing that yes, his daughter got to where she is by spreading her legs for that old goat.

[Pinandpuller]

At Chart World's President's Day Sale all charts are 50% off

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/the-rise-fall-of-empires-nations-city-states/

[anonamom]

Too bad, so sad:

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It's been a really bad month for the woke media. First the Buzzfeed story falls to pieces. Days later, woke media pounces on innocent kids while amplifying the words of an obvious huckster. Northam happens and the woke ones are left flat footed. Then the Smollett case implodes.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.westernjournal.com/exclusive-reagan-insider-trumps-picked-better-conservative-judges-reagan/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=westernjournal&utm_campaign=dlvrit&utm_content=2019-02-18

I am glad to hear this.

[Extraneus]

Learn to code?

Coding was my first love. I probably should have stuck with it as a career.

The community college I attended had a printer terminal (a printer that printed responses to your typed commands) that featured a 10-lesson tutorial on APL, a sublime language that could do in one line what other languages would take 20 or more to do, and I was smitten. A few years later, APL2 enhanced it dramatically.

I ended up studying physics and became a semiconductor engineer, but programming turned into a life-long hobby. I even wrote an involved cloud-based timekeeping app in my spare time (ASP and VB.NET) and made a few bucks on that for a while, but the thing got so complicated that the money just wasn't enough to justify the maintenance, although I had years when I never even had to log into the thing, just collect the money. I moved on, but still have all that code, thousands of lines of it.

[daddy]

Dog update.

Fry's yellow lab girlfriend, Bella died of old age about a month ago, to the sadness of me and Fry and great heartbreak to her owner, Stevie, my dog-walking Attorney buddy.

Well Stevie came home 2 days back with a new 18 month old Black lab pup named Ginger. An Oil family was just relocated to Dubai and they needed someone to take Ginger so he raised his hand like he always does, great fellow. The family must have been a bit odd since they never let Ginger out if their basement to come upstairs, but already Stevie says Ginger has blossomed, and I can tell she already likes being hugged by me as much as I like hugging her.

Scout hasn't met her yet since Scout can be defensive and jealous of me, but both Nelson and Fry have chased her around in the neighborhood snowbanks and in just that 48 hours she is already trustworthy enough to have her off-leash without worrying about her being run over by cars. So good news all around and nice to see my buddy smiling again and that big hole in his heart for Bella being filled.

I have on Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch talking to Lou Dobb's about new AG Barr and he said this which goes against the conventional talking point but makes sense to me: (my transcript)

Fitton: ...The problem with the Justice Department is that Mueller is still running the Justice Department effectively, and so any effort to uncover what went on behind his investigation, and this is what went on behind his investigation, runs into the Mueller juggernaut. Attorney General Barr, he needs to step up and defend the President. You know the argument against Barr was "Will he stand up to President Trump?" and I think the test for Attorney General Barr is "Will he stand up FOR President Trump, and FOR the Rule of Law? against the Deep Staters and the Establishment," who don"t care about our Constitution...

To the gym.

[Pinandpuller]

Ahhhhhhh!!! It's not an anti-lynching law, it's a FAKE ANTI-LYNCHING LAW.

Well I say, we should allow lynching, then afterward, the DOCTOR and LYNCHER can discuss what to do with the dead baby.

Posted by: GUS | February 18, 2019 at 04:54 PM

Or you can talk about your fake grandkids on the tarmac.